Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script of Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France, two twentieth-century English translations, Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness, and an extensive historical and critical introduction by Jerry Wasserman.
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Jerry Wasserman. Spectacle of Empire
Contents
Illustrations
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Getting to Know Neptune
INTRODUCTION. Marc Lescarbot and the Spectacle of Empire
A Note on the Texts
Le Théâtre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France Marc Lescarbot (1606)
The Theatre of Neptune in New France. Trans. Harriette Taber Richardson (1927)
The Theatre of Neptune in New France. Trans. Eugene Benson and Renate Benson (1982)
INTRODUCTION. The Masque of Blackness. The Eloquence of Masques, the Spectacle of State, The Masque of Blackness
The Masque of Blackness. Ben Jonson (1605)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jerry Wasserman
Other plays by Jerry Wasserman
About Talonbooks
Отрывок из книги
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements: Getting to Know Neptune
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14. Neptune’s chariot, from the entry of Albrecht and Isabella into Antwerp, 1599
15. Title page of Nova Francia, first English translation of Lescarbot’s Histoire
